Duotone Wisteria?

[Cheryl Slechta]

O.K. - here's another attempt I used a tutorial from luminous-landscape and followed the black and white conversion using channel mixer and then converting to a duotone image using black and a magenta preset which I adjusted using curves for each color. Then I did a slight Topaz Clean and a very slight vignette. This is becoming an obsession - I haven't liked anything I tried using LR split toning but I need to know if I'm headed down the right path. And is duotone considered a split toned image?
Anyway, thanks for looking and comments and suggestions needed

[Julie Kenward]

Cheryl, although I like the image I don't believe duotone and split toning are the same thing. As Denise said the other night, split toning is where you tone the highlights one color and the lowlights another. Duotone simply means you used two colors to tone the entire image. At least that's how I understand it.

I do think as a duotone this works nicely. The brights are close to borderline but I think they're still acceptable. If it were my image, I might lighten up the darkest areas of the BG just a bit. I really like how the stem and leaves really pop with the duotone treatment!

[Brendan Dozier]

Very nice duo tone compositon, Cheryl. (I'm a little confused about this split-tone, duotone thing too ) I really like the light touch of Topaz Clean you applied, very nicely done!

[denise ippolito]

Cheryl, I think Jules summed up the differences. I love the result you achieved and I don't care if it's split-toned or duotone it's lovely! Nice filtering!

[Mark Fuge]

Nice image and application, Cheryl ... whatever it is!

Well done!

[Andrew McLachlan]

Cheryl, I love how you processed this beautiful image. Nice work!

[Cheryl Slechta]

Thanks, everyone. The concept of split toning is eluding me:eek:

[Kerry Perkins]

In true duotone images, black is one of the colors and then a more saturated color is added to the highlights. In split-tone images, the blacks are actually a color so there are two colors used instead of one color and black (gray). Tinted images use the same color for all tones.